SEABROOK — When you rounded the corner into the Billiards room at Dan Willinger’s house in Malden, Massachusetts, you would stop in your tracks and stare in disbelief. Staring back at you were over ...

If you visited the Beach Funatic in York, Maine, on a Friday this past summer, you may have seen Austin Phillips drawing impromptu caricatures or mystifying locals and tourists alike with his coin and ...

Ventriloquist dummies, along with sideshows and clowns, top the list of “Things People Used to Think Were Fun But Are Actually Terrifying.” Is it the Uncanny Valley effect of the dolls? Or the ...